Inspiring?? Hmm...

This is the story about Rashad Williams, he is a track star of Bay Area. He heard of the tragic shooting thing at Columbine High School, and he felt really sad, because it was track season, and Williams though that if it was him, then that would be a disaster, that's why Williams decided to help this Lance Kirklin, who was one of the two dozen people wounded during the accident. Williams raised money by competing in some track races, and told other people to do so as well, not to run races, but to donate money to help this person, and people helped him. He thought he was doing well when he got 300 dollars, but the mayor found out and loads of people started to donate money to it! In two months, Williams raised 18000 dollars, and even more are donated straight to the Kirklin family.

This inspires me because, I would never ever do something so good. But lots of people do good things, and even great things, why did I choose him? It's because he is also an athlete, I can just feel the feeling he's feeling more than someone who is a doctor, I just never been in a doctor's shoes, I don't know the feeling of it. That's why I chose it. But even if I can feel it I would never do something like that, people get killed everyday, every hour, every minute, how are we going to decide who to help, and how to do it? One more thing is do I have the ability to help anyone? 

What is "PEace"

Peace means everything is in harmony with everything else. But that's quite impossible, so peace for us is just living in a non-violent world, where we get to sleep at night without the fear of getting stabbed in the night.

黃石任務(The Children of Huang-Shi)

On April the 15th, our whole class (tenth graders) went out to watch a movie named The Children of Huang-Shi or Escape from Huang-Shi with Mr. Ruskovich. Before I watched the movie, I knew that it was based on a true story that happened during the Nanking Massacre, so I though it was a boring documentary or something similar to it, I expected that it would drone on and on about what happened during that time in Nanking. After watching 3 minutes of the movie, I realized that it was based on a true story of a british journalist who sneaked into Nanking to get the true facts about it. After getting caught and saved just before he was about to get slaughtered, he went to an orphanage in the mountains, he simply hated the place, not just because he got beaten up by the children there. But then, he just had this sudden passion of helping the children who lived there to live a better life, for example: by pasting papers onto the windows, which will block the wind out, powering up a machine that gave light to them in the dark, and planted a garden to help them have enough food to make them strong and healthy. During this time, the main character (Hogg, I should have mentioned this) made friends and earned most of the children's respect and they helped with the garden and worked together. It's amazing how someone who seems can do nothing, and i really mean nothing, first he did not speak Chinese, second he's in a foreign country, third everyone despised him at first. He saved about 60 children's lives by taking them far away from Huang-Shi, by taking the silk road. It is a very touching movie, it made me realized that even the craziest things could happen, we just have to keep trying.

Blog entry on my first ever imovie project

This is my first ever imovie project, also my first ever movie! It was a wonderful experience, but I don't like it one bit. The main reason I don't like it is because, first: I have never used imovie before, second: I expected the program to be a lot better than it turned out to be, third: I figured that finding a whole lot of pictures you think you will never use will come in handy. I think the part that takes up the most time is putting the pictures so it matches the music, I spend a long time making it all fit together. I got really angry and impatient during the time making the video, because I'm new to imovie, so it took me about 20 minutes to actually know what I am doing, and then at one point, I wanted to cut the music and put on another one, I spend another 15 minutes looking for how to do it, because it's one of the most basic things, the programs must have it. After all the hard work, I think my movie turned out to be not bad, different from what I expected, but it was okay.

UN ad: Stop Land Mines

It's great that the UN is trying to get us aware of how dangerous and horrifying land mines are, but they are making up a lame and fake story to tell us that, and it didn't get their point through me, all I thought was that: "I thought the UN could do way better than that". Maybe they are trying to make us feel that land mines could be anywhere, some people in Columbia just stepped ten feet from their front door and was blasted into pieces, examples like that would make it a whole lot effect. But a land mine in the middle of a carefully pruned soccer field!?!? If anyone should step on a land mine there, then it should be the person who took good care of the grass. I think the other reason why the UN decided to shot the scene like this is because some people who are living in places safe from land mines won't care about it( Well, people like me anyway ). Then after the UN get this idea into people's mind, then some people will start to help out, by donating money or some other ways. Anyway, land mines are a serious subject for those countries that have them scattered everywhere, most victims are kids, you can't blame them for picking up something shiny in the ground! Anybody would do so! People should think about cause and effect before they actually do anything, they have to know clearly about whether it would be a threat to anyone in the future or such. We should learn about where these land mine incidents are actually happening, and with the knowledge, we can help them by a lot of ways, or just getting people aware of such thing. We take too much things for granted, some people just want to live, and they are happy just because they have their family beside them, and these people are being blown apart, their family will never be the same again......so sad><

Describe your ideal society that is free from gun violence

My ideal society that is free from gun violence would mean that everyone in that country will have to abide to certain rules and regulations. But, just making laws and rules and nothing else will not help, people who wants the guns or the weapons will still use underground trading and other illegal ways to get them. We need people to know that violence is hurtful and that we should by all means try to prevent it. It's easy to say, but it's a lot harder then it sounds, I know people who has problems with using violence to solve their problems, people like me. I think we need everyone to help, not most, everyone. I think it would be nice to have a society that would take care of each other, and won't use violence against each other.